CALL FOR PAPERS
Special Topics Issue of JASIST: Bioinformatics
The next special topics issue of the Journal of the American Society for Information
Science and Technology (JASIST), to appear in late 2003, will be on the topic of
bioinformatics. The guest editors will be Dr. Bradley Hemminger and Dr. David
Fenstermacher of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Bioinformatics tools and methodologies for the management of biological data,
information, and knowledge are rapidly being developed and adopted to address the
massive growth of data generated by large scale research efforts such as the Human
Genome Project. Bioinformatics, the application of information technology to the life
sciences, is a fertile research area for the information science field. While biology is a
specialized domain, the data explosion leaves it facing many of the same core issues that
information scientists and librarians have addressed for decades: the design and
management of information retrieval systems; integration and querying of multiple
heterogeneous databases; novel data visualization tools; open metadata schemas and
ontologies; and methods for automated database curation and data quality assurance.
This special topic issue will provide an interdisciplinary forum for researchers and
practitioners to present innovative ideas and methods to address current and future
problems in bioinformatics, including the areas of genomics, proteomics, and
computational biology.
Authors are invited to submit original papers in the area of bioinformatics on topics
including, but not limited to, the following:
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Large-scale database design and development
Database integration
Database quality assurance
Information retrieval algorithms
Metadata and ontological frameworks
Visualization tools
Interface design issues
Legal / intellectual property issues
Inquiries should be made to the guest editors by email, fax or telephone. Authors should
inform the guest editors of their intent to submit prior to submitting a manuscript.
Electronic submissions of manuscripts in PDF or Word (97 or later) are recommended. If
manuscripts are submitted in printed form, please send four copies of the manuscript.
Inquires and submissions should be addressed to:
Dr. Bradley Hemminger
School of Information and Library Science
206A Manning Hall
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3360
Email: bmh@ils.unc.edu
Phone: (919) 966-2998
Fax: (919) 962-8071
Web: http://ils.unc.edu/
Important Dates
May 31, 2002:
October 31, 2002:
January 31, 2003:
September 2003:
Late 2003:
Notification of intent to submit a manuscript
Deadline for manuscript submission
Notification of acceptance/rejection of manuscripts
Final versions of manuscripts due
Publication
All manuscripts will be reviewed by a panel of referees. Original artwork and a signed
copy of the copyright release form will be required for all accepted papers. A copy of the
call for papers will be available on the World Wide Web, as is further information about
JASIST, at http://www.asist.org/.